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Time for eco-revolution (a manifesto)

Posted in Anthropocene, Manifestos & auguries, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 28, 2018 | 9 Comments »

Inspired by the daily litany of depressing news (and by reading Latour’s Down to Earth), I’ve succumbed to the temptation of writing a manifesto. Manifestos are cheap, I know, but we have to start somewhere. (And so many questions arise as you write one: about the proper balance between critique and vision, between generality and […]

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What’s the big deal? Or, whither universities…

Posted in Academe, Cultural politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 23, 2018 | 14 Comments »

A post-Commencement pep talk for myself (& academic friends who care to listen) It should be pretty obvious by now that predatory, extractive capitalism is not working, and that we need to move swiftly to a regenerative mixed economy grounded in a respect for living systems. The implications of that are pretty simple, but also […]

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Peak wild fish (or, one more of 1000 plateaus)

Posted in Eco-culture, tagged , , , on January 14, 2015 | 1 Comment »

Two kinds of historical turning points define our era. The first kind involves the retrospective identification of new forms of enclosure, exploitive intensification, or system derailment. Debates over the beginnings of a recession, or of a war, or — on a larger scale — of the Anthropocene, are about this kind of backdating: how far back do we […]

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